Terrible actor gets work. I love America! (9)
I believe the answer is:
atrocious
'terrible' is the definition.
(I know that terrible can be written as atrocious)
'actor gets work i love america' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'actor' is 'atroc' which is present in the answer.
'i' is found in the answer.
'love' could be 'o' (love means zero in tennis) and 'o' is present in the answer.
'america' could be 'us' (United States) and 'us' is found within the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for atrocious that I've seen before include "Appallingly bad" , "Foolish" , "Horrifying" , "Extremely wicked" , "Extremely bad" .)